Dr. Halbert is the Dean of Libraries at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Dr. Halbert previously served as Dean of the Libraries at the University of North Texas since 2009. His experience also includes serving as Director for Digital Innovations at Emory University and Head of Library Networked Systems at Rice University. Dr. Halbert earned his Ph.D. at the Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts at Emory University, a Masters of Library and Information Science from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Rice University.

Robbie Sittelis the Government Information Librarian at the University of North Texas. She oversees the Eagle Commons Library, a campus branch library that houses a number of specialized services including UNT’s Government Information Connection, the Funding Information Network, and GIS services. The Government Information Connection was recognized as a Depository Library of the Year in 2015. Ms. Sittel is dedicated to preservation and access of Government information, specifically digital-born information. She is involved in a number of initiatives aimed at raising awareness on this issue. Prior to becoming an academic librarian, Ms. Sittel spent 9 years as Documents Coordinator for the Tulsa City-County Library where she was engaged state-wide in promoting and teaching the value and use of Government information. She is an active member of ALA and has held leadership roles in TLA GODORT. Ms. Sittel promotes civic engagement on the UNT campus and throughout the Denton, Texas community, serving on the board of the League of Women Voters, and through her membership in the Benjamin Lyon Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Marie Concannon is Head of Government Information and Data Archives at the University of Missouri, a regional institution in the Federal Depository Library Program. A former Depository Library Council Chair (2015) and winner of the ALA-GODORT Bernadine Abbott Hoduski Founders Award (2014), her latest research interest involves access to state government information. She is lead organizer for a statewide conference designed to bridge the gap between Missouri's libraries, archives and government agencies, titled "Sunshine and Missouri's Digital Future." Contact link: http://library.missouri.edu/contactus/concannon

James R. Jacobs (jrjacobs@stanford.edu) is the US Government Information Librarian at Stanford University Libraries where he supports the research needs of the university, and works on both traditional collection development as well as digital projects like LOCKSS-USDOCS and Web harvesting. He received his MSLIS in 2002 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a member of ALA’s Government Documents Roundtable (GODORT) and served a 3-year term (2009 – 2012) on Depository Library Council to the Public Printer, including serving as DLC Chair from 2011 – 2012. He is a co-founder of Free Government Information (freegovinfo.info) and Radical Reference (radicalreference.info) and is on the board of Question Copyright, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that promotes a better public understanding of the history and effects of copyright, and encourages the development of alternatives to information monopolies. A longer bio including a list of his publications and presentations can be found at Free Government Information (http://freegovinfo.info/node/972).

Lynda Kellam is the Data Services and Government Information Librarian at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro’s University Libraries and the Assistant Director of the International & Global Studies program. She is the co-author of Numeric Data Services and Sources for the General Reference Librarian (2011) and co-editor of Databrarianship: The Academic Data Librarian in Theory and Practice (2016). She received her MA in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, her MLIS from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and is a PhD student in the Department of History at UNCG. She blogs at https://lyndamkreads.wordpress.com/

Shari Laster is the Head of Open Stack Collections at Arizona State University Library. In addition to extensive prior experience as a government information librarian, she also currently serves as chair of the Government Documents Round Table of the American Library Association, and is a past chair of the Depository Library Council, the advisory body for the Federal Depository Library Program.

Scott Matheson is Associate Law Librarian for Technical Services at the Lillian Goldman Law Library. He has worked as a depository coordinator and in public services in law libraries. He served on the Depository Library Council from 2014-2017 and as chair in 2016-17.

Bernard F. Reilly is President of the Center for Research Libraries. He has written and spoken widely on issues surrounding the integrity and survival of critical documentation and evidence. Since 2001 he has led the growth and expansion of CRL as an international consortium devoted to supporting advanced research in the humanities, sciences and social sciences. Reilly was previously Director of Research and Access at the Chicago History Museum, where he directed digitization and dissemination of the CHM library, archives, and architecture, audio, television, and photography collections. From 1987 until 1997 Reilly served as Head of the Curatorial Section in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress.

Marie Waltz is Special Projects Librarian in the International Resources Department of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL). Ms. Waltz works on CRL preservation activities. Some of her ongoing responsibilities are the certification of digital repositories and the assemblage of the JSTOR print archive. Marie has worked at CRL since 2001. Prior to working at CRL she was an Information Specialist for PepsiCo and she began her professional career at the San Diego County Law Library. Marie received her Master's in Library Science from Indiana University in Bloomington.